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Machine will mainly be used as Plex server with NAS with various other stuff like radarr, sonarr, etc and a few other similar always-on stuff. Lots of drives so will be in an ATX case
Would move to a low power Intel CPU, and a fanless heatsink (or just a very very quiet large fan), and just a few big fans in the case to shift heat away from HDD.
Would also prioritise motherboards based on number of HDD connections and unless you're buying a RAID card something with an onboard RAID.
But mostly... the Intel CPU. Any recent one. I'd want to 100% know that hardware offloading of the encoding happens, and your best bet is just to buy a modern Intel CPU.
Velocio
Cheers and @Velocio
Machine will mainly be used as Plex server with NAS with various other stuff like radarr, sonarr, etc and a few other similar always-on stuff. Lots of drives so will be in an ATX case.
It will occasionally also be used for a bit of office and other random shit (through remote desktop). Ideally it would be two machines but I don't really have the space for that.
I don't anticipate changing much on it over the years. It won't be used for gaming/have a graphics card and, given it will likely be in a cupboard or similar, I won't be plugging much in.
The ASRock Rack ones sound interesting but I'm struggling to find much about them (or many places selling them in the UK).